By Professor Ben Newell

Preprints

Ghasemi O; Paas KHW; Bradley G; Ransom C; Deshpande S; Newell B, 2026, Do personal climate actions crowd out collective action and policy support? Evidence from a longitudinal study, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/udqxn_v1

Mason A; Newell BR, 2025, The best or worst is yet to come: how optimism and pessimism shape beliefs about future climate projections among the general public and experts, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3fsra_v2

Ghasemi O; Newell BR, 2024, Evaluating the Impact of Climate Risk Scores on Property Purchase Decisions, http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/n3trk

Mechera-Ostrovsky T; Newell BR, 2024, Verbal Reports as Data Revisited: Using Natural Language Models to Validate Cognitive Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eukqr

Liang G; Hawkins G; Newell B, 2024, Need second-hand advice? The timing of when people seek algorithmic recommendations, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zy9bq

Mason A; Newell BR, 2023, How people interpret projections of future climate change depends on what they think is most likely to happen, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3fsra

Mason A; Newell BR, 2023, The best or worst is yet to come: how optimism and pessimism shape beliefs about future climate projections among the general public and experts, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3fsra_v1

Embrey JR; Li AX; Liew SX; Newell BR, 2023, The Effect of Non-Instrumental Information on Reward Learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cpd8u

Mechera-Ostrovsky T; Newell BR, 2023, From Natural Language Models to Cognitive Model Validation: A Theoretical Framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r6det

Konstantinidis E; Dai J; Newell BR, 2023, Risk, Time, and Psychological Distance: Does Construal Level Theory Capture the Impact of Delay on Risk Preference?, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rp89d

Sloane JF; Newell BR; Ostrovsky T; Meyer AND; Chan N; Donkin C, 2023, Defining Difficulty is Difficult: A Theoretical Framework for Difficulty, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4428781

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2023, How Income Volatility Influences Saving Decisions: Evidence from the Lab, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4545043

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2023, How Income Volatility Influences Saving Decisions: Evidence from the Lab, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4509925

Smyrnis G; Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2023, Motivated Saving: The Impact of Projections on Retirement Contributions, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4579662

Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, 2023, Uncertain goals and savings adequacy: Contrasting economic and psychological perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4511291

Embrey JR; Donkin C; Newell BR, 2022, Is All Mental Effort Equal? The Role of Cognitive Demand-Type on Effort Avoidance, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9fv35

Vanunu Y; Newell BR, 2022, Can increased processing noise induce better decisions? Evidence polarization through exponential weighting., http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6bp3m

Bateman H; Dobrescu L; Liu J; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2022, Determinants of Early-Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4123872

Bateman H; Dobrescu L; Liu J; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2022, Determinants of Early-Access to Retirement Savings: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4121240

Dobrescu L; Shanker A; Bateman H; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2022, Eggs and Baskets: Lifecycle Portfolio Dynamics, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4069226

Sloane J; Newell BR; Donkin C, 2020, The unexpected effect of interruptions on garden-path problems, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v8m5p

Olschewski S; Newell BR; Scheibehenne B, 2019, How Basic Cognition Influences Experience-Based Economic Valuation, http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/4st52

Smyrnis G; Bateman H; Dobrescu L; Newell BR; Thorp S, 2019, Motivated Saving: The Impact of Projections on Retirement Saving Intentions, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3464813

Deetlefs J; Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell B; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2015, Suspicious Minds (can be a good thing when saving for retirement), http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2575482

Dobrescu L; Fan X; Bateman H; Newell B; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2014, Retirement Savings: A Tale of Decisions and Defaults, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2485189

Bateman H; Dobrescu LI; Newell B; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2013, As Easy as Pie: How Retirement Savers Use Prescribed Investment Disclosures, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2227801

Bateman H; Deetlefs J; Dobrescu LI; Newell B; Ortmann A; Thorp S, 2013, Just Interested or Getting Involved? An Analysis of Superannuation Attitudes and Actions, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2340824

Batcup C; Breth-Petersen M; Dakin T; Barratt A; McGain F; Newell B; Pickles K, Behavioural change interventions encouraging clinicians to reduce carbon emissions in clinical activity: A systematic review, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2020830/v1

Popp PJO; Newell BR; Bartels D; Gureckis TM, Can cognitive discovery be incentivized with money?, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/phfwx

Liew SX; Embrey JR; Navarro D; Newell BR, Comparing Anticipation and Uncertainty-Penalty Accounts of Non-Instrumental Information Seeking, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nefpz

Aczel B; Szaszi B; Nilsonne G; Van den Akker O; Albers CJ; van Assen MALM; Bastiaansen JA; Benjamin DJ; Boehm U; Botvinik-Nezer R; Bringmann LF; Busch N; Caruyer E; Cataldo AM; Cowan N; Delios A; van Dongen NNN; Donkin C; van Doorn J; Dreber A; Dutilh G; Egan GF; Gernsbacher MA; Hoekstra R; Hoffmann S; Holzmeister F; Johannesson M; Jonas K; Kindel A; Kirchler M; Kunkels YK; Lindsay DS; Mangin J-F; Matzke D; Munafo MR; Newell BR; Nosek BA; Poldrack R; van Ravenzwaaij D; Rieskamp J; Salganik M; Sarafoglou A; Schonberg T; Schweinsberg M; Shanks D; Silberzahn R; Simons DJ; Spellman B; Starns JJ; St-Jean S; Uhlmann EL; Wicherts JM; Wagenmakers E-J, Consensus-based guidance for conducting and reporting multi-analyst studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/5ecnh

Embrey JR; Donkin C; Newell BR, Does Mental Effort Avoidance Depend on the ‘Type of Effort’?, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/htmxf

Bateman H; Newell B; Thorp S, Flicking the Switch: How Fee and Return Disclosures Drive Retirement Plan Choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2783113

Ghasemi O; Cologna V; Mede NG; Stanley S; Strahm N; Ross RM; Alfano M; Kerr JR; Berger S; Marques MD; Besley JC; Brick C; Joubert M; Maibach E; Mihelj S; Newell BR; Oreskes N; Schäfer MS, Investigating the trust gap between scientists and climate scientists in 68 countries, http://dx.doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/f3qbu

Navarro D; Newell BR; Schulze C, Learning and choosing in an uncertain world: An investigation of the explore-exploit dilemma in static and dynamic environments, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dv8qg

Mason A; Szollosi A; Newell BR, Learning the lie of the land: How people construct mental representations of distributions., http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rdhv8

Hotaling JM; Donkin C; Jarvstad A; Newell BR, MEM-EX: An exemplar memory model of decisions from experience, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fjhr9

Szollosi A; Wang-Ly N; Newell BR, Nudges for People who Think, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ravsp

Martire K; Navarro D; Edmond G; Newell BR, On the likelihood of 'encapsulating all uncertainty', http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/suf8p

Embrey JR; Mason A; Donkin C; Newell BR, On-task errors drive effort avoidance more than opportunity costs, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/42cnh

Walker AR; Navarro D; Newell BR; Beesley T, Protection from uncertainty in the exploration/exploitation trade-off, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5y643

Le Pelley M; Newell BR, Reward-driven and memory-driven attentional biases automatically modulate rapid choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cgs98

Szollosi A; Liang G; Konstantinidis E; Donkin C; Newell BR, Simultaneous Underweighting and Overestimation of Rare Events: Unpacking a Paradox, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fmsze

Hotaling JM; Navarro D; Newell BR, Skilled Bandits: Learning to Choose in a Reactive World, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ghmdx

Raban MZ; Urwin R; Rahman B; Silva SSM; Newell BR; Lim L-L; Wabe N; Li L; Arnolda G; Neupane S; Balmer S; Dunstan T; Pinto S; Thomas V; Westbrook JI, Smarter, Shorter, Safer: Study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial and process evaluation of a behavioural intervention bundle to reduce antibiotic use in residential aged care, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.01.26357003

Mason A; Newell BR, The best or worst is yet to come: how optimism and pessimism shape beliefs about future climate projections among the general public and experts, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3fsra_v3

Embrey JR; Liew SX; Ghai I; Newell BR, The effect of uncertainty and outcome probability on non-instrumental information seeking, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8gtrx

Liu Y; Shaikh A; Newell BR; Perfors A; Hayes B, The Impact of Social Learning on Learning Traps, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/fsqxg_v1

Watson P; Lee WJ; Lee J; Liu Y; Newell BR; Hayes B, The role of attentional processes in the emergence and prevention of learning traps, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7fx4p

Hurlstone MJ; White B; Newell B, Threshold uncertainty, early-warning signals, and the prevention of dangerous climate change, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2045100/v1

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